<p>Apart from the knee-jerk “lying is bad” reaction you’ve gotten (and probably knew you would get when you posted this question), you could get caught. You don’t know that your teachers won’t say something like “X wasn’t very involved in their sophomore year, but really turned it around afterwards” in their recommendations.</p>
<p>But more importantly, nothing on your college application is important enough to lie about it. This isn’t about whether you had extracurriculars, but whether you began them in 10th or 11th grade. That’s not going to make a difference, not with college admissions as random as they already are.</p>
<p>People, I’m sure this kid agrees with all of you that lying is bad. This is just an example of how twisted this country’s idea of college admissions ispeople compromise the morals they usually adhere to because they’re so scared of not getting into a good enough school.</p>